You are being deliberately obstructive if you ignore ten years of David Bowie and highlight the decade with the Bay City Rollers.

 

When I was 13 was short, 5'2". Platform shoes definately helped my self esteem. Hukapoo shirts were the apex of fashion and bell bottoms were mandatory.

 

I most certainly am not! I am being deliberately mischievous.

 

I have come to realise how narrow-minded it is to think of our past in terms of decade numbers. In any case, there is always a lot of overlap; people can't remember whether the CD was invented in the 70s or 80s, colour TV arrived in the 70s in the UK but the 60s in the USA. Flared trousers and long hair for men was the 60s, 70s AND early 80s. Hippies, weed-smoking was 60s AND 70s. But I do remember the digital watch, calculators, the Walkman and Jean-Michel Jarre bringing synth music in the 70s; some remember synth music from the 60s. The overlaps go on and on. It's actually a media thing to think in terms of decades; the documentary makers, sales marketers and newspapers created the illusary concept of decades. We should be thinking in terms of 'mid to late 20th Century' music, fashions, inventions and social attitudes. The early 21st Century, where we are now is all 'retro (-grade)' or backwards-looking rather than innovative in terms of fashions - I am very disappointed and I do not take part in shaved-head or skinny trousers fashion that is, for me just plain old-fashioned.

 

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speaking of sh*tholes.. what's old is new...but he couldn't get away with doing this pre-performance banter today

 

Hippies may be a thing of the past, although the hippie mentality and "fashion" was sort of revived with many of the psy trance followers, but either way, weed smoking is timeless my friend

 

Hey Burt, ya got any of that weak seveties stuff in?

 

Lost tracks of the seventies #2.

When Jon Anderson was recording Olias of Sunhillow, Vangelis taught him how to play and program synths. So closely did Anderson learn this, Vangelis was nearly sued by his own label for appearing on the album in person without permission, when he hadn't.

 

Four Norberts hitting tin-foiled covered tea trays with knitting needles.

1975

Gear isn't everything.

 

The weed (£8/ounce 1968) may well have been weaker, but then the hash was better and much more varied and the pre micro dot/ blotter liquid LSD was..............inspiring, especially when used direct

 

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That's an early incarnation of Kraftwerk up there Fudsey

 

How can you gentlemen forget the definitive musical genre of the 70s, Disco line dancing?!

 

hahah stg wouldn't 'schwag' totally sell? hahaha - '..and overhere.... 'pocket lint'

top thread Fuds!

 

Was a strange feeling driving home one eve after work.. when on the radio came news of Garica's death in '95....
heart attack after yet another drug relapse.... the 60's also seemed like an amazing musical decade.. well for
psychedelia maybe only a few short years at the end... but with Garica gone.. it really put the feeling in me..
that this decade and much of what it was about was truly a thing of the past ...

but still have my vinyl, including Terrapin Station , thanks for reminding me @electriclash

 

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Thai sticks was the skunk of the day, but as for microdot...

 

@Fudsey Plange and did you ever see Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett?

never came across anyone yet who actually saw them live in that line up...
Thai stick... wow heard of it many times.. but have never seen also... does it even still exist..

that Bay City Rollers pic is just boffo too.. they hardly ever cross my mind anymore..
and I can't think I have heard anything about them since the 70's either.. totally
frozen in time... those baggy pants almost look like simulated kilts...

talk about a trip...

 

i was born in 1971 and 70s were rich in everything music,movies,economy,health wise,food you name it
i loved 80s as a teenage ,first kiss by first girl ..then got my first slap from her father

 

Too dam many things unforgettable about the 70s, how 'bout i remind you of :

 

Thai sticks didn't come round that often tho Fudge Packer, err soz, I mean @Fudsey Plange........still, it was nice watching thon old dog Seamus howl.

I have a vague..............really vague recollection of the Welsh aciid thingy, gotta admire the sentiment below tho if its an itsy bitsy tad naive


Alston “Smiles” Hughes, the charismatic and eloquent former Mancunian squaddie-turned-LSD dealer, still claims it was never about financial gain.

“Money was incidental. LSD had such a profound effect on me and my life that I wanted everybody to experience it,” he explained.

“I felt that the problems that beset this world could be tackled in a different way and LSD opened your mind to the possibilities and a deeper understanding that everything is ultimately connected. And that ‘one-ness’? I wanted everybody to experience it.”

 

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